Skip navigation
    University of Texas Press contacts  
shopping cart
  Find a book. Journals. For authors. Booksellers & educators. About UT Press.  
 
 

2002

6 x 9 1/4 in.
503 pp., 7 b&w illus.

ISBN: 978-0-292-70909-6
$50.00, hardcover with dust jacket
33% website discount: $33.50

 
 

The University of Texas Press will be closed for Thanksgiving on November 26 and 27; we will reopen on Monday, November 30.

 
 
     

The Collected Poems and Selected Prose

By Stanley Burnshaw
Foreword by Thomas F. Staley

 

Back to Book Description

 

Table of Contents

  • Foreword by Thomas F. Staley
  • Early and Late Testament (1952)
    • Early and Late Testament
      • (Preamble)
        • Time of Brightness
      • (First Testament)
        • Bread
      • (Second Testament)
        • The Iron Lands
        • Do I Know Their Names?
        • For a Workers' Road-Song
        • All Day the Chill...
        • Will You Remake These Worlds?
      • (Third Testament)
        • A Coil of Glass (I)
        • Anchorage in Time (I)
      • (Fourth Testament)
        • This War Is Love
        • A Coil of Glass (II)
        • Hero Statues
      • (Fifth Testament)
        • Dialogue of the Heartbeat
        • The Bridge
        • Heartbeat Obbligato
        • End of the Flower-World
      • (Sixth Testament)
        • Looking for Papa
        • Among Trees of Light
        • Coasts of Darkness
        • In Strength of Singleness
      • (Seventh Testament)
        • Blood
        • It Was Never This Quiet...
        • When Was It Lost?
        • Woodpecker
        • Voices in Dearness...
        • Song Aspires to Silence
        • Anchorage in Time (II)
      • (Eighth Testament)
        • Two Men Fell in the Irish Sea
    • Poetry: The Art
    • Odes and Lyrics
      • To a Young Girl Sleeping
      • Innocence
      • Wave
      • Event in a Field
      • The Fear
      • Light Outlives All Shape
      • Midnight: Deserted Pavements
      • Random Pieces of a Man
      • Waiting in Winter
      • Outcast of the Waters
      • Restful Ground
      • Days
      • Driving Song
      • Willowy Wind
    • The Hollow River
    • Second-Hand Poems
      • Anonymous Alba: En un vergier soiz folha d'albespi
      • Orléans: Le temps a laissié...
      • Spire: Nudités
      • Spire: Ce n'est pas toi...
      • Spire: Nativité
      • Spire: Un parfum éternel...
      • Spire: Baisers
      • Spire: Friselis
      • Spire: Volupté
  • Caged in an Animal's Mind (1963)
    • Thoughts about a Garden
      • Historical Song of Then and Now
      • Summer
      • Ravel and Bind
      • Caged in an Animal's Mind
      • Ancient of Nights
      • Symbol Curse
      • The Valley Between
      • Thoughts about a Garden
      • Petitioner Dogs
      • Father-Stones
      • Night of the Canyon Sun
      • A Recurring Vision
      • Midnight Wind to the Tossed
    • The Axe of Eden
    • Listen:
    • Random Pieces of a Man
      • Thoughts of the War and My Daughter
      • A River
      • Surface
      • Preparation for Self-Portrait in Black Stone
      • Mornings of St. Croix
      • Boy over a Stream
      • Letter from One Who Could Not Cross the Frontier
      • Voyage: Journal Entry
      • Nightmare in a Workshop
      • Seven
      • Clay
      • A Rose Song
      • Guide's Speech on a Road near Delphi
      • Song of Nothings: In the Mountain's Shadow at Delphi
      • I Think among Blank Walls
      • Seedling Air
      • Three in Throes
      • Modes of Belief
      • House in St. Petersburg
    • Time Is a Double Line
    • Second-Hand Poems
      • Akhmatova: The Muse
      • George: Denk nicht zu viel...
      • Éluard: L'Amoureuse
      • Von Hofmannsthal: Eigene Sprache
      • Alberti: El ángel bueno
  • In the Terrified Radiance (1972)
    • The Terrified Radiance
      • The Terrified Radiance
      • To a Crow
      • Innocent War
      • Gulls...
      • Central Park: Midwinter
      • The Finding Light
      • Erstwhile Hunter
      • Their Singing River (I)
      • Not to Bereave...
      • Underbreathing Song
      • Emptiness...
      • Procreations
    • Women and Men
      • Movie Poster on a Subway Wall
      • End of a Visit
      • The Echoing Shape
      • Summer Morning Train to the City
      • Women and Men
      • Terah
      • Isaac
      • Talmudist
      • What Plato Was
      • Song of Succession
      • En l'an...
      • Dialogue of the Stone Other
      • In the Coastal Cities
      • Will of Choice
      • Chanson Innocente
      • The Rock
      • Condor Festival
    • Three Friends
      • We Brought You Away As Before...
      • Friend across the Ocean
      • Wildness
    • The Hero of Silence
      • I. Dedication: An Eternity of Words
      • II. Master and Pupils
      • III. Soliloquy from a Window: Man and Flowers
      • IV. Dialogue before Waking
      • V. Fume
      • VI. Into the Blond Torrent
      • VII. The Waking
    • Second-Hand Poems
      • Paz: Más allá del amor
      • Spire: Retour des Martinets
      • Alberti: Canción del ángel sin suerte
      • Alberti: El ángel mentiroso
      • Verhaeren: La Bêche
      • Akhmatova: from "The White Flock"
      • Unamuno: Me destierro...
  • Mirages: Travel Notes in the Promised Land (1977)
    • I. First Landscape
    • II. Generations of Terror
    • III. Blind Tale
    • IV. Seventh-day Mirage
    • V. The Rock
    • VI. Talmudist
    • VII. Marching Song
    • VIII. Choices
  • Later Poems (1977- )
    • Message to Someone Four Hundred Nights Away
    • The House Hollow
    • Argon
    • Florida Seaside
    • Old Enough at Last to Be Unsolemn
    • Mind, If You Mourn at All
    • To Wake Each Dawn
    • Their Singing River (II)
    • Speech, the Thinking-Miracle
    • Man on a Greensward
  • Social Poems of the Depression (from The New Masses and The Iron Land [1936])
    • The Crane-Driver
    • Street Song: New Style
    • I, Jim Rogers
    • Mr. Tubbe's Morning Service
  • Notes on the Poems
  • Selected Prose
    • My Friend, My Father
    • Stevens' "Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue"
    • The Poem Itself: "Discussing Poems into English"
    • Thomas Mann Translates "Tonio Kröger"
    • A Future for Poetry: Planetary Maturity
    • The Seamless Web
    • Toward the "Knowable" Frost
  • Index of Poem Titles and First Lines

Foreword

 

Search Books  |  Orders |  Catalogs |  Current Season

Terms of Sale |  Privacy Policy | UT Austin Web Accessibility Guidelines
Copyright © 2003-9 University of Texas Press. All rights reserved.